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>>femfos+(OP)
Anecdotal but my office is ultra-woke. There are endless internal emails about whatever-week, or veterans-this, or LBGTQ+-that etc etc. People have been hounded out and either quit or been fired for fairly minor "infractions" of the groupthink (...and also some people have rightly been fired for actual inappropriate behaviour).

And guess what all this talk about "toxic masculinity" and generally vilifying all men leads to? If you said "chilling effect" then you are bang on. It is a bloody minefield. Keep your head down, never talk about non-work stuff, refuse to provide feedback or do interviews, refuse to help people out unless it is directly your job' responsibility to do so etc and hope you don't get fired.

It genuinely feels like I have a target on my back.

>>mattlo+J4
The only solution to cancel culture is to cancel those out of your life who would cancel you. I would be doing the same thing if I was in your shoes.

On the bright side, this is hopefully a healthy opportunity for us all to find some friends outside of work.

>>jimbob+J6
That's like fighting for freedom of speech forbidding those who are against it to speak.

>>Darmod+Zb
The important question today is what we would have done if Joseph McCarthy had been right. If (in some bizarre parallel universe) he was somehow right about Communists doing...Communist things and we all definitely agreed on this, would we have applauded his tactics?

The cancel culture crowd today seem to think yes. They look to him as an idol and see his only flaw as his unjust cause.

I don’t think I agree. Extrajudiciality should be shunned in all its forms even if it leads to bad people meeting bad ends.

>>jimbob+mj
RFK and Nixon thought so and worked on his staff. So in 1968, running against each other, those two probably represented 95% of the electorate.